A description of hosting

The most elemental and popularly used kind of web hosting is the shared web hosting service. It represents a means to host your web site without having to know much about programming and administering a web hosting server. What's more, it's also the most inexpensive type of web space hosting and it's indeed affordable for everyone. Still, what is shared web hosting?

What is shared site hosting?

As the name indicates, the shared webspace hosting service is a form of service where multiple clients share the resources of one and the same web server. This means that all server constituents like CPU, hard drives, RAM, network cards and so on, are split among the customers whose accounts are on that same web server. This is mostly rendered feasible by opening separate accounts for the different customers and allocating some limits and quotas for each of them. Those limitations are fixed in order to hinder the users from interfering with each other's accounts and, of course, to hinder the web hosting server from overloading. Normally, shared web space hosting clients do not have full root-level access to the hosting server's config files, which essentially implies that they do not have access to anything else on the server but their very own web hosting account. The site hosting resources that each account may use are set by the web hosting provider that owns the server and by the given webspace hosting package. That paves the way for the second important question:

How are the shared hosting servers shared among the customers?

Hosting providers that distribute shared web space hosting packages normally have different web space hosting packages. Those plans include different amounts of web space hosting features and specifications, which in fact fix the limitations that a site hosting package will include. The user may pick between the different web hosting plans and sign up for the one that he thinks will befit him best. The web space hosting package will then determine what limitations the customer's account will have, once created. The costs and the features of the web site hosting plans are determined by the given web hosting distributor. Depending on the policy of the provider, the shared hosting service can be divided into two groups - the free hosting solution and the classic shared solution, most recently very famous among "cPanel hosting" providers as a cloud web hosting one. It's not possible to claim, which one is more preferable, since they are quite different from one another and they really are subject to the business policy of the given provider and, of course, the needs of the particular client.

What is the contrast between the free and the classic shared web site hosting service?

Of course, the main difference between the free and the paid service is in the amount of resources that they offer. Free web site hosting vendors are not capable of maintaining an immense amount of servers, therefore, they plainly host more clients on a single hosting server by reducing the quantity of system resources offered by the accounts. This will be efficient only in case the web hosting servers are monitored and dealt with properly, since the immense amount of accounts may make the hosting server crash repeatedly. The majority of the free web space hosting suppliers, however, ignore the quality of the service and hence, it's quite hard to discover a free web site hosting solution that's actually worth the effort. The top free hosting firms commonly offer free client support even to the free web hosting clients, since they want their sites to grow so that they eventually move to a paid webspace hosting package, which includes more site hosting resources. One such distributor, for instance, is FreeHostia.com, which is among the largest and oldest free webspace hosting firms in the world.

At the same time, traditional shared web hosting suppliers such as BATITO Hosting, for example, are able to maintain numerous servers and hence, they are able to offer much more powerful web hosting plans. Of course, that affects the pricing of the website hosting packages. Paying a higher price for a web space hosting package, though, does not necessarily denote that this solution has a finer quality. The most advantageous services are the balanced ones, which offer a fee that matches the concrete service which you're receiving. The top-notch web site hosting firms that have been around for a long time are listing their prices and package specifications in a realistic manner, so that the client may know what in fact he is getting. Also, some of them provide a free extra with the website hosting plan, like the 1-click applications installer, complemented with 100's of free-of-charge web design skins that are supplied by 'BATITO Hosting'. Such hosting distributors do worry about their good name and this is the reason why if you choose them, you can rest certain that you won't get fooled into buying an account that you cannot actually make use of.

What should I expect from a shared web space hosting service?

The shared webspace hosting service is best for persons who desire to host a normal web page, which is going to devour a small or medium amount of web traffic every month. You cannot anticipate, however, that a shared website hosting account will last you a lifetime, because as your business enlarges, your web portal will become more and more resource consuming. So, you will have to eventually upgrade to a more powerful site hosting service like a semi-dedicated server, a VPS (aka a virtual private web server, or VPS), or why not a dedicated server. So, when choosing a web hosting supplier, you should also think about how they can be of service to you, or else you might end up relocating your domain name manually to a different distributor, which can create web site complications and even extended downtime for your web portal. So, selecting a website hosting distributor like 'BATITO Hosting', which can supply you with the required domain name and hosting services as you grow bigger, is vital and will save you lots of complications in the long run.